Patent searches for genetic sequences: How to retrieve relevant records from patented sequence databases

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1269-1271

  Dufresne, Guillaume ^a   Takács, László ^a   Heus, Hendrik C ^b   Codani, Jean Jacques ^b   Duval, Manuel ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b Gene IT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; GENETIC DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; PATENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 19044396479     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1202-1269     Document Type: Note

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